The Los Angeles City Council has approved $1.6 million in settlements of four lawsuits alleging police misconduct, including one brought by the family of a man fatally shot in the back by a member of the LAPD's controversial Special Investigations Section. The city will pay $600,000 to the family of William Joseph Bachwich III, who was killed in 1986 when, according to police, a veteran of the SIS unit accidentally fired his shotgun while trying to arrest Bachwich.

The Los Angeles City Council has approved $1.6 million in settlements of four lawsuits alleging police misconduct, including one brought by the family of a man fatally shot in the back by a member of the LAPD's controversial Special Investigations Section. The city will pay $600,000 to the family of William Joseph Bachwich III, who was killed in 1986 when, according to police, a veteran of the SIS unit accidentally fired his shotgun while trying to arrest Bachwich.

After being shot in the face by a police officer in an abandoned apartment house, James Boulware sued the city of Los Angeles and collected $577,000. When no signs were posted to warn Rudy Ramirez that a city street had ended, and he crashed his car, he sued and won $151,000. After Ana Medina walked across a Hollywood street that lacked crosswalk markings, was struck by a car and left a paraplegic, she sued and got $1.6 million.

Cal State Dominguez Hills and Cal Poly Pomona have taken their lumps this baseball season. Pomona was swept in a doubleheader and fell out of first place in the California Collegiate Athletic Assn. on Sunday. Dominguez Hills was in first place at midseason but lost seven consecutive conference games before winning the second game of a doubleheader against Cal State San Bernardino on Sunday.